If Clothes make the Man, what do Shoes do?

I overheard someone recently comment on a grown man going barefoot and how that must have brought shame on his family. It got me to thinking about our changing opinions because it wasn’t too many years ago that shoes on the mountain were only considered a necessity in the wintertime.

But then I remembered the story about Gladys Pell and how the first time she saw her future husband he was barefoot in church. We pondered why that embarrassed her because her own family was anything but wealthy....